Peace
Culture, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:1, Peace, Social Justice, Theory
No regrets
Brad Homewood and Violet CoCo are climate activists and organisers with Extinction Rebellion. They recently served two months in prison for blocking the West Gate Bridge in Naarm/Melbourne to sound the alarm on the climate emergency. [...]
... Read MoreCulture, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2023:3 - Visions & Movements, Peace, Social Justice, Theory, Virtual Issue
From disruption to destruction
"What is it going to take?" I know your job seems important right now. I know your 'clean record' so you can still fly overseas seems important now (not that it actually stops anyone from travelling, so far). I know that police are scary, the state is scary. I know, I have been arrested 33 times now. [...]
Culture, Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda 2023:2 - On Living Democracy, Peace
We mustn’t shy away from the reality of our plight
I like the way Tim Hollo claims that it’s the end of the world as we know it, “and I feel fine.” I try to keep up with the latest from adventurous Greens, so when I heard about Tim's book I thought I’ll have to read that, immediately ordering a copy online. [...]
... Read MoreEnvironment, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Spring 2021, Peace
Plan E: A climate-centred security strategy?
It is timely that Green Agenda consider the issue of hope, because the circumstances humanity and the living planet face in 2021 are dire. At the time of the Glasgow climate summit, the world finds itself facing three types of security crises: Planetary security is threatened by the Climate Emergency; the sixth extinction event; and the precariousness of other planetary... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Winter 2021, Peace, Social Justice, Uncategorised
Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud: An interview with Mehreen Faruqi
Dr Mehreen Faruqi is the Greens Senator for New South Wales (2018 – present). Green Agenda’s co-editor Simon Copland spoke with Mehreen about her recently published memoir, Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud, and what it means to be an ‘unapologetically Brown, Muslim, migrant, feminist woman‘ in Australian politics. The transcript has been edited for clarity and brevity. Simon Copland: Thank... Read More
Culture, Economy, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Autumn 2021, Peace, Social Justice
Green Agenda Autumn 2021: On (in)security
“What’s the most dangerous place you’ve ever been?” People often ask me this question, curious because of my work. I’m a researcher and a practitioner in the protection of civilians from violence, and I have spent time in war zones and refugee camps and neighbourhoods with high rates of gun violence. At the moment, I live and work in South... Read More
Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Autumn 2021, Peace, Social Justice
Together, or not at all: An interview with Scott Ludlam
Scott Ludlam is a former Greens Senator (2008 to 2017) and served as deputy leader of the Australian Greens. He has also worked as a filmmaker, artist and graphic designer. Green Agenda’s co-editor Felicity Gray spoke with Scott about his recently published book, Full Circle, and how our understandings of security must change if we are to transcend the violence... Read More
Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Autumn 2021, Peace, Social Justice
SAS war crimes: (In)security at home and in Afghanistan
Content warning: This article provides details of violence that readers may find distressing. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that some of the hyperlinks contain the names and photographs of people who have died. On July 11 2017, ABC journalists Dan Oakes and Sam Clark published ‘The Afghan Files’, a series of investigative stories that detailed the deeply... Read More
Culture, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Autumn 2021, Peace, Social Justice
Government’s secrecy war makes us less safe
When the Australian government announced in April last year that they would be developing and deploying a smartphone application to assist contract tracing efforts as the coronavirus pandemic started to impact Australia, there was immediate and vocal public scepticism. It came from privacy advocates and the technology sector, but also human rights advocates and the broader public. The trickle of... Read More
Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Summer 2021, Peace, Social Justice
Beirut burning
Some of the worst wildfires ravaged through the mountains of Lebanon in 2019, caused by extended drought, wind and unusually dry weather. The government’s response to this crisis mirrored every government service in the country, at best inadequate, and mostly non-existent. In 2020 more than 100 wildfires spread again throughout the mountains in the southern Chouf and in the northern... Read More
